It is very evident that Unitarians, denying the Deity of our Lord, must of necessity deny the virgin birth.. One evil leads to another. Take away the keystone of an arch, and the whole structure falls to the ground. A Unitarian writer tells us, " We cannot be absolutely certain that Jesus was the best man that ever lived, or that he was supremely good: still less that he was God. His supernatural birth is certainly not self-evident, nor his supernatural resurrection. For the Unitarian, then, Jesus was not born of a virgin." (Freedom and Truth, p. 226).
Thus the Unitarian denies THE PROPHECY UTTERED BY GOD HIMSELF, on the very day of man's sin and fall, that He would put enmity between the serpent (Satan) and the woman, between the serpent's seed and the woman's seed (Gen. 3:1515And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Genesis 3:15)). The seed of THE WOMAN! Whoever heard of the seed of the woman? Not the seed of the man, the ordinary way of nature, but the seed of the woman, a statement emanating from God Himself. The Unitarian dares to contradict God. It was plainly the first intimation by God Himself of the virgin birth of our Lord, that in Him should be the salvation of the human race. No other explanation is possible.
Isaiah, too, centuries before our Lord was born into this world, wrote plainly, " Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a SON, and shall call His name IMMANUEL." (Isa. 7:1414Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14)). Here we get fuller light on Gen. 3:15,15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Genesis 3:15) inasmuch that the virgin's seed was to be a SON, and His name was to be IMMANUEL, meaning " God with us " (Matt. 1:2323Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (Matthew 1:23)). Here we get presented to us the SON, humanity (sin apart); IMMANUEL, Deity—One Blessed Person our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lastly the Apostle Paul wrote, " When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, MADE OF A WOMAN, made under the law." (Gal. 4:44But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (Galatians 4:4)). " Made of a woman " refers clearly to the virgin birth of our Lord. If the mighty creatorial power of God decreed that children should come into the world in a certain way, is it not equally within His power, if He chooses, to depart from the normal and make an exception?
An infidel doctor once said to a Christian doctor, that he could not understand the virgin birth. The reply was, " Do you understand your own birth?" The infidel doctor had to acknowledge that he did not. How simple when God is brought in! How impossible when He is not! Life, whether natural or spiritual, is ever the secret of God, and outside of Him will never be known. We know that we live, that we have certain powers, a response to certain environments, but life itself in its creation and essence remains a secret locked up forever in the mind of the Creator.
The virgin birth was chosen as the means of our Lord's entrance into this world for two reasons at least. One was to declare His sinlessness, His pure and holy humanity. In proclaiming that high honor that was to be put upon Mary in being chosen as a virgin to be the mother of our Lord according to the flesh, the angel was met by the modest and maidenly question, " How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?" The angel replied, " The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that HOLY THING which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke 1:3535And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. (Luke 1:35)). Our Lord had no sinful paternity. He was sinless in conception as a Man. Second, it narrowed the identification of the promised Messiah to ONE INDIVIDUAL of all the millions of the human race, even our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.